I have read all the books about him that I can find on the market, but his famous autobiography "My Life" has not been read yet. It is said that the legend of Casanova has been put on the screen more than a dozen times. In the new version of "Casanova", the old and distressed Casanova wrote his "My Life" under the gloomy light. He has written the romantic history of him and countless women. He has written Francesca, his pen paused a bit, and the story began here. The background was Venice in 1753. That year Casanova was 28 years old and flourishing.
Friends who are interested can find the summary of this movie, or I can paraphrase Langegue’s writing as follows:
“For this reason, Casanova wandered the streets with his servants all day, and finally saw a beautiful woman with a face like a Virgin Mary. They follow the beauty, propose to her father and get married, but they don’t want this beauty but there is a young man who has a crush on her across the river. The young man is deeply in love, so they have to duel with Casanova. In the duel, pawn Casanova lifted the other party’s mask, but he faced a woman—the younger sister of a young man. The younger sister Francesca was agile, smart and beautiful, and Casanova was fascinated by her. , Even forgot that she had just been engaged to another woman. Coincidentally, Francesca had already been married to his family. Her fiance was a wealthy aristocratic young man. After a rematch of three men and women in a rematch of fate, Fan The prosecutor in Tigon finally got his wish and sent both Casanova and Francesca (she wrote a book on the relationship between men and women) to the gallows. At this time, Casanova’s biological mother, who had been missing for many years, was sent to the gallows. But suddenly appeared, pretending to be the emissary of the Pope to robbery..."
This undoubtedly added a glorious touch to Casanova's romantic history. Langege said that this is a comedy, and it is true, but for those of me who are used to life with a straight face, some people don’t like it too much. It would be nice to look back at this period of his experience. There is nothing wrong with the film, it can only show that there are a thousand Casanova in the eyes of a thousand people.
If this film is about a real experience of Casanova, then more than ten years later, Casanova experienced his first loss in love in London. That year, Casanova III At the age of eighteen, he still wandered the streets with his servants, searching for his prey, just like he did more than ten years ago. In fact, he didn’t need to search. There was a woman who took the initiative to send him to the door, but this woman didn’t come to let him free. To enjoy, but to come prepared, to deliberately break his myth of undefeated love. She did get what she wanted. Not only did she not let Casanova get anything from her, but she took Casanova to the court, which made him bankrupt. This is Casanova in the eyes of the novelist Andrew Miller. At the beginning of the novel, a masked woman came to visit Casanova, who was already old. I wonder if she came to ask Casanova for forgiveness.
Regarding Casanova, the most moving description comes from Zweig. As soon as Casanova appeared on the stage, he was very imposing: the performance in the theater has already begun. There is a tall man with gorgeous clothes, Shanshan, who is late, and his clothes show off. With beautiful patterns, his face exudes a charming luster. He came to the VIP table, but he did not take a seat right away. Instead, his eyes swept proudly across the ladies or young ladies in the boxes. The actress who was about to go on stage also used to It was his mistress, those women who knew him and those who did not know him, as if they had taken an aphrodisiac, they immediately began to feel like aphrodisiac...
Someone said that Casanova once said something like this: "What's the meaning of sleeping in your own bed? Even an idiot sleeps in his own bed. Sleeping in someone else's bed is interesting." In the new version of the movie, Casanova has the situation of fleeing from someone else's bed in a hurry. The others here, of course, refer to other men.
Zweig praised Casanova in this way:
"Casanova proved that people can write the most interesting novels in the world without being a writer; they can paint the perfect picture of the times without being a historian... Full emotions can become creative. Shamelessness is the same as shamefulness, evil and good, morality and immorality: it is never the style of the soul that determines eternity, but the abundance of a person... because immortality does not know. What is ethical or unethical, good or bad; it only measures the intensity of the work, it requires human consistency rather than purity... Morality is nothing to it, but intensity is everything."
Ferram, an admirer and psychoanalyst of Casanova, briefly described Casanova’s life in her "Legend of Casanova". In her eyes, Casanova is in addition to In addition to a love hunter, there is also a man who is affectionate and righteous. Casanova didn't go to see a woman, but he did make his daughter pregnant with his child.
Casanova was almost undefeated in his life, but like all heroes, time finally defeated him mercilessly. When he got old, he recalled with a little sadness:
"I seem to feel that I am old... …, I feel that after a long period of fighting, I didn’t sleep more peacefully. In the past, my appetite was quite good, coupled with the fact that love is constantly stimulating my appetite, but now, even if I am in love, even if I get For pleasure, my appetite is not as good as before. Besides, I don’t think my appearance can attract the attention of women. I have to rely on sweet words to attract the opposite sex, but they still prefer my rivals... When people talk about me At that time, I said that the person was a little older, and I recognized this, but the facts really make me feel angry..."
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